I'm in an odd position now in that I'm hoping Trump will win the nomination. As I've said before, I don't believe for a second that he can become president, so whether he's up against Clinton or Sanders, the democrats will find it hard to lose. Anyone else could be a real threat to Sanders (especially as he's likely to get a rough ride from much of the media), and could well beat Clinton as well. So, yeah, um... go Trump.

So the Democrat result has officially been declared - Clinton 49.86% to Sanders 49.57%.

The exit poll data is interesting. If you're under 45, you probably went for Sanders, if you're over 45 you probably went for Clinton. If you're under 30, you almost certainly went for Sanders, if you're over 65, you most likely went for Clinton - though not as decisively as Sanders got the youth vote.

Of the people who were doing this for the first time (44% of those polled), nearly 60% went for Sanders. If you usually think of yourself as a Democrat, you probably went for Clinton, if you think of yourself as an Independent or something else (Not a republican) you in most cases went for Sanders. This group made up 20% of those polled.

Big picture time: Despite every pundit’s fixation on the notion of momentum, there is a little thing called “delegate allocation” that these primaries are actually supposed to be about. It takes 2,382 delegates to win the Democratic nomination for president, and Iowa possesses only 44 for the taking.

Hillary Clinton’s razor-thin victory in the Iowa Democratic caucuses means she and Vermont senator Bernie Sanders are going to split up those delegates, Solomon-style: Clinton will collect 23 delegates and Sanders will win 21. With her advantage in superdelegates - party officials who can support the candidate of their choice, a feature exclusive to the Democrats - Clinton now has a total of 385 delegates, or a little more than 16% of the amount she needs. Sanders has 29.

Granted, delegate-chasing isn’t everything - Clinton tried that in her 2008 campaign against then-senator Barack Obama, and she ended up working for him.

Big picture time: Despite every pundit’s fixation on the notion of momentum, there is a little thing called “delegate allocation” that these primaries are actually supposed to be about. It takes 2,382 delegates to win the Democratic nomination for president, and Iowa possesses only 44 for the taking.

Hillary Clinton’s razor-thin victory in the Iowa Democratic caucuses means she and Vermont senator Bernie Sanders are going to split up those delegates, Solomon-style: Clinton will collect 23 delegates and Sanders will win 21. With her advantage in superdelegates - party officials who can support the candidate of their choice, a feature exclusive to the Democrats - Clinton now has a total of 385 delegates, or a little more than 16% of the amount she needs. Sanders has 29.

Granted, delegate-chasing isn’t everything - Clinton tried that in her 2008 campaign against then-senator Barack Obama, and she ended up working for him.

It's not them, it's ABC. They didn't have a staffer with an earpiece to send people on, so Carson and Trump could not hear their names be called. They didn't realise this until too late, at which point they called them again, and forgot they still had Kaise to come.

Who appears a full 15 seconds after Carsons name is called, and appears to say "Go go go" just as Ted Cruz's name is announced, so Carson naturally halts as it appears they have fucked up the order.

The staffer then appears again saying just "go" again at the exact point they announce Donald Trump. This causes him to miss the cue to get Trump to walk out. You can see as Bush walks out that he has no idea what is happening, if he is next to go or not. Even on TV we can barely hear Kasich announced.

Then someone realises the fuckup, and the moderator asks Carson to come out, but again because of the noise from this, Trump then can't hear that he's been called again. They then call him again, and forget about Kaisich until Rubio points this out.

All of which would have been avoided if the guy creeping around the curtain were stood with them in the wings, or instructed them to walk directly out rather than them relying on being able to hear backstage. Quite how the director wasn't telling the moderators that Carson, and then Trump, then Kaisich missed their cues I've no idea.